AMA’s Financial Modeling and Forecasting Workshop Seminar # 1276

Improve decision making with advanced modeling techniques!

Build more powerful and more accurate forecasting models to better analyze financial data, predict revenues and costs, assess risks—and
justify critical business decisions.

How You Will Benefit

• Create effective financial models that meet your business needs
• Quantify the uncertainty inherent in forecasting models with various risk analysis techniques
• Make better, more profitable business decisions using advanced financial modeling methods
• Evaluate patterns in your historical data
• Identify and utilize key business drivers and integrate them into your forecast
• Effectively communicate the results of  your models to team members and senior management

What You Will Cover

• Working  with advanced Excel modeling techniques such as simulation add-ins
• Creating your own model from real-world examples
• Analyzing and applying diagnostics to validate your forecast 
• Understanding how Monte Carlo simulations handle uncertainty

Who Should Attend

Analysts and executive-level managers who work with financial models, need a refresher course on modeling methods—as well as experienced financial professionals who have not built models on a regular basis.

Note: Please bring a laptop equipped with Excel.

Those with minimal finance experience should attend AMA’s Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers or Intermediate Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers.

Recommended CPE credit: 21 hours/Intermediate
Recommended for optimum learning benefit: familiarity with fundamentals of finance analysis (seminar #1552).
Instructional Method—Group Live

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Accreditation and Continuing Education Units
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs
Nonmembers $2,445 / AMA Members $2,195 / GSA $1,880

Schedule

We have 12 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between July 15, 2009 and March 24, 2010.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form